WCW 2001 Fantasy Booking update.
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WCW News
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- Cruiserweight Tag Team Title retired (with only 2 winners to it's history). Simply put there's not enough TV Time to have several different titles, especially 2 different tag titles.
- WCW sign an exclusive deal with FOX. WCW Saturday Night to air on F/X from Summer Season 2001.
- WCW Saturday Night will air Saturday Afternoons on F/X in a 1 hour time slot. The deal will see Fox cover 10% of the production, with 70% of advertisment revenue going their way in return. The original deal will see a pilot of 24 episodes produced.
- WCW agree contract with RVD and Don Callis
- A blow to WCW as Setanta Sports follow InDemand and reject PPV discussions.
- However both GlobeCast WorldTV and Bright House agree to contract talks over a possible PPV Deal. Not the 'ideal' networks to broadcast PPVs on, as GlobeCast WorldTV is a foreign carrier, known mainly for Arabic and Asian shows, and Bright House are under the Time Warner umbrella. Perhaps no one told them about WCW. However, GlobeCast WorldTV do cover the entire of the North America (USA and Canada), while Bright House only covers the USA. It would also mean WCW PPVs would return.
- WCW Sign an initial 6 month deal with PPV Carrier GlobeCast WorldTV, with 90% of the revenue generated going to GlobeCast WorldTV.
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Other News
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- XPW fire Major Gunns and Chastity.
- The Bushwackers return to the WWF! As does Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, Tommy Dreamer, former Headbanger Glen Ruth and Greg Valentine... and Leatherface?! A strange reaction to the return of WCW.
- WWF hire more former stars: Barry Windham, Curt Henning, Samu, Nelson Knight.
- NWA: Wildside hire Chris Candido, James Maritato, the recently released Mike Sanders, Paul London and Nigel McGuiness.
- Rocco Rock, Nicole Bass and Mae Young retire from in-ring action.
- The Rock debuts in the hollywood action flick 'The Mummy Returns'
- WWF No Mercy on the N64 flies off the shelves, while WCW Backstage Assault gets no love
- Foley is Good! WWF star Mick Foley releases his 2nd autobiography. It reaches #1 in the New York Times Bestseller list.
Would Shawn Michaels ever join WCW? Currently without a contract, sitting at home recovering from injury with no real interest from WWF.
How to fit all these wrestlers on one 1 hour show a week?
Why are the WWF resigning all these former stars?!